Internet punks beware: piss me off and I'll blog all over you

As a frequent user of Teh Interwebz, I do my best to adhere to certain principles of politeness in my communication with others over computers, especially in "social" settings, such as message boards. It's basic internet etiquette, really: don't type in all capital letters, don't troll message boards, proofread to avoid confusion, don't personally attack other posters, etc. In my experience, most people do a pretty good job of sticking to those unspoken rules. Every now and then, someone comes along who forgets, or simply doesn't know the rules, and that's fine, as long as they change their ways once they've been informed. No harm, no foul.

What really gets my goat, though, are the self-righteous turds who are sticklers for "the rules" until someone says something they vehemently disagree with, at which point all etiquette goes out the window. Consider the following anecdote.

At a sports-related message board I frequent, a user started a thread for those fans who live outside the main market of what they consider to be their "home" team (i.e. people who are New York Yankees fans despite not living in New York). My favorite pro sports franchise is the Washington Redskins. Now, I split my time between Sterling, VA (a suburb of Washington, DC) and Salem, VA (where I go to college), so I am not outside the DC market. But I do encounter an oddly high concentration of Atlanta Falcons fans in the area, which doesn't make sense until you find out that they're also die-hard Virginia Tech fans, and started following the Falcons after they drafted Michael Vick in 2001. Salem's location in Southwest Virginia means it's prime VaTech country.

In my experience, Tech fans are insufferable. I mean, I'm friends with a few, but a surprisingly large number of them are obnoxious drunks who care about nothing other than proving how Virginia Tech's athletics program is the best thing that ever existed (despite having never won a national championship in any sport). All they do is belittle fans of less athletically successful teams (such as my UVA Cavaliers) and make it unsafe to drive on I-81 on Saturday evenings in the fall, when they drive home from the game so drunk that anything in between the rumble strips is "their lane."

Anyway, I mentioned something to the effect that I find many Tech fans inexcusably blind in their support of a program which continues to recruit players with disciplinary problems, despite the long history of hooligans and ne'er-do-wells associated with the school's sports teams--in particular football. And that's without the Vick brothers entering consideration, even though the younger showed his true colors again this week.

I posted my feelings in the aforementioned thread because I felt they were at least a little relevant. Nobody had a problem, save one self-righteous twat Virginia Tech student who came out of the woodwork with the following:

Thats probably one of the most ignorant statements I have ever seen.Thugs and hooligans? The Vicks are gone and Ore got kicked off the team for his off the field issues. You have no clue what you're talking about. The Blacksburg cops have consistantly harrassed VT players for
minor issues, they're not ****ing thugs, you're just an idiot.Thats a typical bull**** UVA fan excuse when you can't keep up with Tech "Yeah well at least OUR players aren't thugs...look at Vick!!!!"People supported Vick because of what he did for the program but there are tons of diehard Redskins fans in Southwest Va.Don't post this garbage about my school and its fans.

I probably would have let him slide if he hadn't been the same punkass who, two days earlier, was busy telling people not to attempt to circumvent the profanity filter (i.e. writing "f*ck") because "it's against the rules." Never mind that as soon as he gets bent out of shape he'll fly off the handle and personally attack me for my well-formed opinion, derailing an erstwhile lively thread and generally just being a bitch. Not only did he shoot back a pathetic, sissy-boy argument, he fulfilled his reputation as a buzz-killing thread hijacker. Not to mention he actively stereotypes me--an act which he had just finished declaring as deplorable.

You're on notice, "DarrellsMyHero28." Your hypocritical douchebaggery will not be tolerated.